PendexO mod power abuse.

This is a discussion on PendexO mod power abuse. within the Feedback forums, part of the General category; A moderator suggested I post this here. (and I thank him)
Here's my post: http://www.gamers4life.com/forums/f1...ml#post3172998
G4L Rules: http://www.gamers4life.com/forums/f4...fe-rules-3255/
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To be honest, he kind of deserved it. He was provoking the hell out of that thread, so when PendexO publically warned him, he went straight to accusing him of being corrupt (i.e. the whole "he has a mod as a friend" post).
I don't think anything PendexO said (or did) was unreasonable (though the infraction message is a bit meh, he *was* warned). >_<

Originally Posted by nickos3

All i want now is aftermath to call his friend who's moderator in here, to clean this topic & to warn the trollers.

Seriously, it was well deserved with a lot of his earlier crap like this:

Originally Posted by nickos3

I expect ban for AfterMath. He spams this topic every few hours with useless comments.
Reports sent already.

For those that didn't follow the thread, AfterMath was the guy that owned the server, the "spam" being referred to here was him replying to peoples' posts (at that stage anyway...), not even double/triple posting or anything like that.
Additionally, it should be mentioned (for further clarification of the whole "mod friend" thing) that earlier in the thread, he'd been asked to clean up the thread somewhat since it had devolved quickly into nonsense flaming/spam... nothing that, I at least thought, was remotely unreasonable... none of that really needed to be in the thread.

Side note: AfterMath tried to chargeback what he'd paid me earlier this year for his server, so I'm pretty sure I'm not saying this for his sake. >_<

When did I accuse him of being a scammer? He refunded those people and then tried to charge me back, but obviously couldn't because he was too late. Fuck off with the provocation BS already. >_<

Originally Posted by twostars

You actually want me to post that stuff? Or do you mean the logs with Pacnik?I also hear you're charging back the $500 (well, ~$485 after Paypal fees) which was for just about everything (the website, the PUS, the anticheat, the server fixes, etc)?

What's the reason for that? The only things I removed were the stuff you got freely; if there's any issues with it after I did that, that's most certainly not my intention.
Everything you paid for (anticheat, website, PUS, etc...) should still function correctly...

Is this how you've chosen to lash out at me for the post?

Originally Posted by twostars

So when are you going to tell them you were compromised because of Pacnik?

He's had access since you first got the server (gave himself his own account to do so, and admitted it was to inject items), so any and all accounts could very much be compromised right now. Not to mention the passwords aren't even hashed; they're plaintext, so that makes it all the more likely he took a peek.

It's surprising because *I* was the one to find out on launch day, and told Rick (and then Dean). Assumed some mention would be made, but unless I'm simply missing it (admittedly haven't been keeping up with the shoutbox, but I can't expect everyone else will either), I still haven't seen any mention of this made from either of them.

You guys should change your passwords. (Especially if you're using details you use elsewhere!)

Also, because I'm posting I get the feeling people are going to assume I'm "part of the staff" or that "this is my server", both of which aren't remotely true. The only reason I've been sticking around is to ensure everything I'd implemented continued to work correctly, and also, since I'd been kept out of the loop before launch - despite earlier discussion - and consequently had nothing to do with the setup of the dedicated server, to reconfigure it - while live - to remove any stupid holes, and redo the webserver, as there was no caching whatsoever despite absolutely requiring it to prevent flooding from DoS'ing the server from the inside, which started to happen [when the webserver started to go unresponsive on launch] until I finished replacing it. [Such sentence, I'm sorry.]
Anyway, despite that I found I was rather at Dean's beck and call, so because of that (and general horrible administration -- I'm sorry, but Dean should be nowhere near anything or anyone [and yes, I already know you're going to lash out at this post by not paying me for the $50 for the extremely-long week of fixes, not to mention the $20 because you're too lazy to run a single statement copied from a website. While it'd be nice, I don't remotely see how you think that makes sense or is remotely justified, but I'm just a sucker for that shit.]), I decided it'd be best to just stop doing what I do by providing such excessive (not to mention time consuming) support, including revoking a bunch of private stuff I let them use freely instead of (*gasp*) having to pay for.

Sorry guys, I tried. Rick's a great guy and all but Dean is such a horrible influence on this server. The amount of shit he puts everyone through is not even remotely worth it.

It shouldn't mean much of anything to the server; just a bunch of features/checks/implementations I threw in because I figured they could make use of them or they'd otherwise benefit the server. Everything Dean actually paid me for is still fine (anticheat, etc), things may just seem a little more lax.

Rick is putting so much effort into the server, and I think that shows. He is the only reason I bothered to continue to help out (instead of spending the time working on my own project[s]). I feel bad that he's had to deal with that shit for as long as he has (heck, before the server even launched, Dean [metaphorically] pulled the plug on the server, because Rick made one single harmless decision without him. The horror!).

So yeah, I really (seriously!) hope you guys do continue to enjoy the server.
The server itself is (more than) fine, all I've seen is how fun you guys have found it, so yeah. It's a good server, but serious changes do need to be made behind-the-scenes...

Originally Posted by twostars

Over? Not even $500, that's excluding Paypal fees -- and this was back in February, so all the bugfixes/improvements, reconfiguring the server (and killing off your access) DURING launch (because ???), not to mention the beck and call shit... that was all pro bono.

Saying that he want or that he did charge back publicly while he didn't, isn't an accuse ?
and since you've some reputation in here, with the (2nd quote) post you did, you simply killed the server (for which server, that guy paid you 480$) because you've led*(lol) all the previous trollers to troll even more and the people who *donated* to charge back.

and *now*, days later, you come here saying that *today* you've received an e-mail saying he attempted to open a dispute against a payment.

Originally Posted by twostars

So, today I received an e-mail from Paypal:

Notification of Deferred Dispute: Case no.PP-003-101-678-044

We are contacting you to let you know that one of your buyers recently visited the Resolution Centre and attempted to open a dispute against a payment. The buyer wished to dispute the payment sent on 18 Feb 2014 (Transaction 1U658854R9624151G). This dispute has been deferred because it was not opened within 45 days of payment.

Although this dispute is not eligible for negotiation in the Resolution Centre, we have noted that the buyer was dissatisfied with this transaction.

We encourage you to work directly with the buyer to resolve this matter and take this opportunity to provide customer service as you see fit.